13-letter words containing w, e, a, r
- cable railway — a railway on which individual cars are drawn along by a strong cable or metal chain operated by a stationary motor
- cable tramway — tramway (def 4).
- calico flower — a Brazilian woody vine, Aristolochia elegans, of the birthwort family, having large, solitary, white-spotted, purple flowers.
- camp follower — If you describe someone as a camp follower, you mean that they do not officially belong to a particular group or movement but support it for their own advantage.
- canary yellow — Something that is canary yellow is a light yellow in colour.
- cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
- cape-farewell — Cape, a cape in S Greenland: most southerly point of Greenland.
- car allowance — an amount of money that an employer gives an employee who needs to use his or her car as part of his or job
- caraway seeds — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of the caraway plant, used in cooking and in medicine
- card walloper — (jargon) An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do things like print people's paychecks. Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind.
- carolina wren — a large wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus, of the U.S., having a musical call.
- carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
- carpet-weaver — a person who weaves carpets
- castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
- casual worker — a person who has temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
- cat's whisker — a pointed wire used to make contact with the crystal in a crystal radio receiver
- caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
- cd-read-write — Compact Disc Rewritable
- cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
- cedar waxwing — a brownish-gray, crested American waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum), with red, waxlike tips on its secondary wing feathers
- cedarwood oil — an aromatic oil obtained from the wood of the red cedar and used in the manufacture of soaps, perfumes, and insecticides.
- charles swart — Charles Robberts [rob-erts] /ˈrɒb ərts/ (Show IPA), 1894–1982, South African statesman: president 1961–67.
- charles's law — the statement that for a body of ideal gas at constant pressure the volume is directly proportional to the absolute temperature
- charlottetown — a port in SE Canada, capital of the province of Prince Edward Island. Pop: 34 562 (2011)
- child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
- childrenswear — clothing for children
- chowderheaded — like a chowderhead; foolish
- churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
- class warfare — conflict, tension between social classes
- class-warfare — Also called class conflict. conflict between different classes in a community resulting from different social or economic positions and reflecting opposed interests.
- clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
- clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
- coast redwood — the redwood, Sequoia sempervirens.
- cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
- coconut water — the watery, drinkable liquid inside an immature coconut.
- congresswoman — A Congresswoman is a female member of the US Congress, especially of the House of Representatives.
- connate water — Connate water is water which is trapped in rock pores.
- cooper's hawk — a small North American hawk, Accipiter cooperii, having a bluish-grey back and wings and a reddish-brown breast
- corporate law — law that relates to corporations and to business activities in general
- covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
- coxwell chair — Cogswell chair.
- cracked wheat — whole wheat cracked between rollers so that it will cook more quickly
- creepy-crawly — You can refer to insects as creepy-crawlies when they give you a feeling of fear or disgust. This word is mainly used by children.
- crow-pheasant — a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.
- crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
- crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
- cuckoo wrasse — a fish, Labrus mixtus
- death warrant — A death warrant is an official document which orders that someone is to be executed as a punishment for a crime.
- dewar (flask) — a double-walled flask with a vacuum between the walls, which are silvered on the inside, used esp. for storage of liquefied gases
- dick size war — penis war